Today (2013-11-09) it’s exactly 1000 days until the opening of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games… This might seem still a long way away but we all know in every day life, time goes fast and faster. Even more than in regular life topsport requires planning ahead. This is so for players with ambitions, for teams, […]

Are our sport officials doing what it takes to preserve our sport on the highest podium of all, The Olympics? Or is their focus too much on other matters? Probably also important to our sport, but I don’t think anyone will argue the fact that further developing our sport on a global scale to keep its place […]

Dear Mr Negre, Dear Mrs Fleuren, We all love our hockey and are grateful we are a sport that is not stifled by conservatism and power-games by those chosen to guide our sport. The modest reinventing of our game with changes in rules (no more off-side, interchange, self-pass,…) these last years have been very beneficial. The […]

Through the most recent phenomenon in international hockey, the HIL or Hockey India League, we once again were confronted with the diversity of the world and of course also the world of sports. And while the echo of the Indian fireworks at the HIL finals could still be heard the IOC almost cut our sport from […]